Debashree Mukherjee
Debashree Mukherjee is an associate professor in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), Columbia University[1] as of October 2022. She is also affiliated with the Center for Comparative Media; Film & Media Program, School of the Arts; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, & Sexuality (IRWGS). According to her university profile, her research focuses on South Asian cinemas, with methodological investments in film and media studies, feminist decolonial historiography, environmental humanities, and technology studies.
According to her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva.
In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the following allegation:
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]
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Books[edit]
- Mukherjee, Debashree. Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City. Columbia University Press, 2020. Link to source
Articles and Book Chapters[edit]
- Mukherjee, Debashree. "Archival Conjugations: Queer Traces of Love and Loss in Bombay Cinema." A Companion to Indian Cinema, 2022, pp. 122-146. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree, et al. "Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion." Feminist Media Histories, vol. 6, no. 3, 2020, pp. 21-51. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree, et al. "Researching Women’s Film History." The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley, 2020. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree. "A Specter Haunts Bombay: Censored Itineraries of a Lost Communistic Film." Film History, vol. 31, no. 4, 2019, pp. 29-59. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree. "Scandalous Evidence: Looking for the Bombay Film Actress in an Absent Archive (1930s-1940s)." In C. Gledhill & J. Knight (eds.) Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinema’s Past and Future, University of Illinois Press, 2016. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree, K. Bhaumik, and R. Allana. Filmi Jagat, A Scrapbook: Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema. Art Heritage & Niyogi Books, 2014. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree. "A Material World: Notes on an Interview with Ram Tipnis." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2010, pp. 199-205. Link to source
- Mukherjee, Debashree. "Good Girls, Bad Girls." Circuits of Cinema, Seminar Special Issue, no. 598, 2009, pp. 21-27. Link to source
References[edit]
- ↑ Debashree Mukherjee page on Columbia University accessed October 3, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022